Dov Katz / Dubi Katz: Interactive Perception

Movement-produced stimulation in thedevelopment of visually guided behaviour

Held, R., & Hein, A. (1963) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56(5), 872-876.

Full and exact adaptation to sensory rearrangement in adult human Ss requires movement-produced sensory feedback. Riesen's work suggested that this factor also operates in the development of higher mammals but he proposed that sensory-sensory associations are the proposed that sensory-sensory associations are the prerequisite. To test these alternatives, visual stimulation of the active member (A) of each of 10 pairs of neonatal kittens was allowed to vary with its locomotor movements while equivalent stimulation of the second member (P) resulted from passive motion. Subsequent tests of visually guided paw placement, discrimination on a visual cliff, and the blink response were normal for A but failing in P. When other alternative explanations are excluded, this result extends the conclusions of studies of adult rearrangement to neonatal development.

Interactive Perception

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"The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them"
--- Aristotle